Bowling Party

Andrew is turning 4 and had a bowling party to celebrate.  The girls loved bowling and did pretty good.  Mallary rolled a few that were so S.L.O.W. that I wondered if they would ever touch a pin.  Andrew loved his cake.  We also got to see our sweet friends the Hills and meet sweet baby Caroline. 

1st day of 1st Grade

Gracie - you started 1st Grade today at Ben Davis.  You have been counting down the days for the past 2 weeks.  You were so excited for this day! You never seemed nervous about going to a new school with lots of new friends and for that I am thankful!  Your teacher this year is Mrs. Burton and all your 1st Baptist Kindergarten friends that are at Ben Davis are in your class.  Mommy, Daddy, Mallary and Grant went with you to drop you off for school.  We took a few quick pictures and away we went.  You had a little scared look when I left, but I knew you would be ok and you were!  2:35 was a long time away, but you were all smiles when I picked you up - you loved playing on the playground, having a school scavenger hunt to find all the special places in school, eating lunch in the cafeteria (we'll brave the lunch line tomorrow - ha!) and just have fun. 

Wrapping up summer vacation

After camps were finished for Gracie (dance and tennis) we knew we need some outings to help pass the days.  We found all kinds of fun stuff to do to wrap up our summer vacation.

We went to Bridgestreet and shopped, had ice cream, rode the carousel and walked around.

We went to the ArtWalk in Downtown Decatur. 


We played at the splash pad with friends and did the nature walk.


We had a breakfast picnic and played at a different playground.  

Sky VBS

Gracie and Mallary both got to go to VBS with Faith and Briley this week.  Mrs. Nancy does such a good job at PMPBC as children's director and they are so sweet to invite us to share in their VBS.  The girls had the best time - they loved the songs - especially "I'll fly away" and learning about the special mission project they were working on - buying nets for the children of Mali to protect them from Malaria. On the last night they got to showcase their songs for the parents and have the contest results presented.

Both girls got to do Art Camp this week (by far the best art camp!).  Mrs. Kelly does such a wonderful job with all the children and the art is so cute.  They also learn about artists and get to use all different mediums- paints, clay, chalk, pastels, pencils, collage, canvases - you get the picture.  They are exposed to all lots!

Week in Camps Review

This week was our 1st week of attempting somewhat of a normal routine...Gracie was at Upward Cheer Camp and Mallary at Princess Ballerina Camp.  We had to be up, dressed and out the door by 8:45am.  Woo - we made it!  Still not sure what we'll do when school starts in August as we're not the fastest morning people : )

Anyways on Friday, both girls had a performance.  Mallary had a a dance recital and Gracie did some cheers and stunts for us!

Lake Day

The girls and Alan went to PaPa's lake house to celebrate his 70th Birthday.  They all had fun playing with cousins, swimming and going down the giant slide.  The other favorite thing was taking golf cart rides!